what about a simple

if( count( $_POST ))

All you need is to check a form submission

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Eric <blueray2...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Jimerson" <vend...@charter.net>
> To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 11:21 AM
> Subject: [PHP] Re: Best way to test for form submission?
>
>
> > On 08/27/2009 11:09 PM, Adam Jimerson wrote:
> >> This question might give away the fact that I am a php noob, but I am
> >> looking for the best way to test for form submission in PHP.  I know in
> >> Perl this can be done with
> >>
> >> if (param)
> >>
> >> but I don't know if that will work with PHP.  I have read the Learning
> >> PHP 5 book and the only thing that was mentioned in the book was the use
> >> of something like this
> >>
> >> print "<p>Hello ".$_POST['username']."</p>";
> >
> > Sorry copied and pasted the wrong line (long day)
> >
> > if (array_key_exists('username',$_POST))
>
> Here is another way
>
> if (isset($_POST['username'])  && $_POST['username'] != '')
> { ...
>
>
> >>
> >> I'm sure that this is not the best/recommended way to do this but I'm
> >> hoping someone here will point me in the right direction.
> >
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